Lawrence Unified School District 497 Snow Day Predictor

By email, text message, phone call, the district website, social media, local TV and radio, and on the district’s own closings page.

2 hours: on a delay morning every school starts that much later.

May 26, 2027, on the district’s 2026 to 2027 calendar.

About 15.1 inches a winter at a NOAA weather station 1.1 miles away, averaged over 10 winters. Between December 1 and March 31 that brings 1.4 weekday mornings a year with 2 inches of new snow or more, and 0.4 with 4 inches or more.

6.5 inches on January 9, 2024, the largest single day at a NOAA weather station 1.1 miles away in 10 winters. The snowiest winter was 2018 to 2019, with 25 inches.

It reads the National Weather Service forecast for Lawrence through the night and the 5 to 8 am bus run, adds winter alerts and the Winter Storm Severity Index, and measures the snow against Lawrence’s own big snow morning: 2.7 inches, the top tenth of snowy weekday mornings at a NOAA weather station 1.1 miles away.

Kansas requires 186 school days (181 for seniors), or by board policy 1,116 school hours for grades 1 to 11 (1,086 for seniors, 465 for kindergarten). Once the board's scheduled snow make-up days are used up, extra weather closures count as school days, up to the number of make-up days scheduled or five days, whichever is smaller.